If You Gave Birth to a Baby Boy, Would You Have Him Circumcised?

My mom said that when I was a kid, it was pretty common to circumcise your son when he was born. Times were different back then though - my mom also said it wasn't "proper" to whip your boob out in public, so instead of breastfeeding, the nurse put ice packs on her breasts.

Nowadays, we know how important breastfeeding is to the baby's health, and circumcision - well, some people are starting to disagree with it, calling it immoral, and against the baby's wishes (you can't really ask a baby boy if he wants his foreskin removed or not!).

In the 1960s, nearly 90% of American baby boys were circumcised, and in the 1970s, that rate began to drop. In 2004, it was reported that only 57% of baby boys were circumcised. So there has been a definite decline in the amount of newborn males having this operation.

Still many parents do agree with circumcision for many reasons - some want their baby to look like their father, others are following Jewish tradition (boys are circumcised during a ceremony called a bris), and others feel that it's cleaner and may help prevent certain infections, STIs or types of cancer.

@mmaeyen Apparent thing changes over time it doesnt mean that if mens were circumcise will make them all "immune" 100% from the causing of cervical cancer, it just only prevent it "slow down" the spread. And FYI: cervical cancer is cause by: 1. smoking too much cigarette, 2. practice high sex activities (sex with multiple partners), 3. From mens who cant keep themselves "santinary" (under there foreskins)!

It's been observed that there're no cases of cervical cancer among Jewish females, the reason being that the males are circumcised. In Europe, where males are not circumcised, the leading cause of death is cervical cancer.

a baby is not going to have sex and until then you can teach your son how to wash himself and use a condom

4 years

circumcision is MUTILATION.
it was intitiated so boys/men to raise their eyes to the heavens and say: see god, this is how much i love you; i am willing to give up some of my sexual pleasure for you.
there is NO health reason whatsoever to have this mutilation visited upon your boy child.
those parents who do have their boy child mutilated should be prosecuted and have the right to claim they love their son forfeited

5 years

The foreskin is a very important part of the penis!
The foreskin protects the end of the penis (glans) from getting irritated or hurt, like your eyelid protects your eye.
An uncircumcised boy is actually much easier to keep clean in infancy!
New parents have run into problems with foreskin in the past because they try to pull it back to clean underneath it, but really, the foreskin should be left alone, untouched. It will clean itself inside, and the outside stays clean by being immersed in water with the rest of the boy's body during baths.
Circumcised boys require much more attention--prone to bleeding and hernias, and the remaining bit of the cut foreskin often fuses itself to the penis and needs a second surgery to be loosened by the doctor.
Many older circumcised males get painful erections and, if the doctor had removed too much skin, tearing of the penis may occur.
One doctor compared circumcision to cutting off a person's nostrils. The nostrils are there to protect the inside of the nasal passage, just like the foreskin protects the penis. The foreskin actually has a bit of muscle inside of it, along with nerve endings -- it's not just loose skin! Same for the nostrils. But we don't cut apart our noses, so why harm the penis?
Upon birth, the foreskin is fused to the glans of the penis, just like fingernails are fused to fingers. The doctor has to tear the foreskin away from the glans, which is why there is so much blood. Imagine having your fingernails ripped off--Ouch! And the penis is one of the most sensitive parts of the body.
Circumcision began as a method to stop masturbation (although, that clearly didn't work). There were never any medical benefits to back it up. Today's doctors will tell you that circumcision is entirely unnecessary. The head doctor at one of the top medical institutions in the United States has two sons and neither of them is circumcised! What does that tell you?
We need to evolve and get rid of this needless practice.
Our culture is above this now, and I'm glad to see that circumcision rates are falling drastically.

5 years

foreskin is unsightly?
labia is unsightly!
any mother who has her son circumcised should have her labia chopped off. she shouldn't have a problem with it, since she supports genital mutilation.

Newborns DO feel pain.
They DO have fully developed nerve endings.
It used to be a common medical myth that newborns can't feel pain, but we now know that nerve endings are fully developed in the fetus by 15 weeks!
Those nerve endings have been active months before the baby is even delivered.
And most doctors don't even use any anesthetic, because they are so used to the babies' cries that it doesn't bother them. The babies are objects to these doctors--simply a job they get paid for.
I would never let anyone near my baby's genitals with a knife.

5 years

No, it is never worth circumcising a baby!
9% of baby boys die from circumcision each year. That's nearly one out of every ten baby boys. Why even risk it??
Circumcision is a purely cosmetic surgery.
Any mother who "doesn't want to wash foreskin" or thinks that foreskin is "ugly" enough to warrant chopping up her child's genitals is selfish and needs to be locked up/have that precious child taken away to be raised by someone competent.
As almost any doctor will tell you now days, there is no good reason. Some Americans are used to it and think it should be done for looks, or to fit in (even though rates are dropping and now only 54% of babies are circumcised, so circumcised boys will soon be the ones being made fun of). There are no real benefits, although in the US some people pretend it is clean or healthy, none of this has been proven. Around 85% of men in the world are NOT circumcised, and the US is the last developed nation still doing it although their rates are dropping significantly.
When babies are circumcised around half of the skin on their penis is cut off along with thousands of high pleasure giving nerve endings. Adult males who are circumcised are missing about 15 square inches of skin. In my opinion for most males circumcisions do little or no good and for most males circumcisions severely decrease their sexual pleasure capacity. The U.S. is the only country in the entire world that circumcises a large percentage of male babies for non religious reasons.
It's HIS body, HIS choice.
It's much easier to circumcise an adult (his choice) than to have foreskin restoration done.
If you wouldn't do it to a girl, why do it to a boy?

I am an uncut man. I think the whole circumcision debate basically boils down to culture. I have never been rejected by a partner for coming with all factory installed parts. When urinating the foreskin is pulled back and keeping clean is easy. Never had a complaint about cleanliness or oral sex. Like I say, it all boils down to culture. My wife and I decided not to circumcise our son because we want that to be his choice when he is old enough.

5 years

And to all you women complaining about how uncircumsised penises are "gross" and "ugly," how would you feel if there were men out there criticizing and mocking your vagina and vulva? I bet you'd think it was pretty insensitive and ignorant.

5 years

I see no point in chopping off healthy, sensitive, functioning, NORMAL tissue simply to fit a cultural "ideal." It's there for a reason. And as for teaching a child to clean his foreskin, it's no more difficult than teaching him to brush his teeth or clip his fingernails.

5 years

Um, to "some important facts"- what magical drug are you smoking and can i have some?? I have heard some wacked out conspiracy stories (and i do believe in some of them).. but how the hell are you tying anti-circumcision with the NWO??!!
As for my opinion.. I will never ever ever eva cut my future sons. No way no how. I have only been with one uncircumcised man (my current lover) and he has totally changed my mind. To cut a man is to defile nature... to deny the natural. and sex is one of the most natural and beautiful acts of humankind.
Plz.. note that this is MY opinion. whatever any of you decide to do is your own choice.

5 years

As a former non-circumcised man who was circumcised as an adult, I can tell you that the presence of absence of foreskin on sexuality is more psychological than physical.
However, it is more convenient being circumcised, not having an obstruction and bacteria secretions on the head.
It makes sex much more practical and enjoyable.
Also the foreskin does secrete Human Papilliom Virus (HPV) and Tyson's Cells. HPV cells when lodged into the vagina may breed and grow in cell count. HPV is the number 1 cause of cervical cancer in women. Tyson's Cells have been found to bind instantly to the HIV cells which cause AIDS.
For urination, hygiene, sex, lessened irritability and even appearance, circumcision makes things much more convenient for a guy, while also protecting both sexes from the acquisition of disease, injury, infections and illness.
The micro-trauma the underside of the foreskin sustains during sex is no longer an issue after circumcision.
Whether you are circumcised or not, in terms of sexuality, it is all completely psychological. I have experienced sexual downsides having both foreskin and being circumcised. They all were based on what moods I had, not if foreskin was there or not.
A major reason why so many people are for or against circumcision so strongly on the Internet has to do with their psychology not anything to do with the physical.
As for Christians, Jesus said that circumcision, non-circumcision and uncircumcision (foreskin restoration) avail to nothing, but following the commandments of God to love your fellow human brother and sister is what is important. All humans are one Race, descended from one bloodline. Spiritual wickedness refers to all the false doctrines presented to humanity so that they might choose to turn against their human brothers and sisters and destroy each other. We do not wrestle against flesh and blood but spiritual wickedness in high places. High places refers to the religions, politics, economics which have NOTHING to do with Jesus Christ (Yeshua). I needed to mention this to Christians and all humans in general. So they aren't further deceived by the religions and politics which have nothing to do with the KJV Bible. If you speak, read and write English, then only the KJV Bible is correct. If you speak Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Persian, Sanskrit and Sumerian which are the original languages of the Bible, then your own non-English Bible is mostly likely accurate. But the English language Bible has been corrupted especially the NIV. The Fascist Bankers own the publishing clearing house for the NIV. The Authorized KJV is the real Bible for English speakers which is directly translated from all those other non-English languages for which the original real Bible was authored in.
Just wanted to mention this to clear up any confusions the spiritual wickedness (false doctrines) have influenced this world with.
As for baby boys getting circumcised, the retracting of the foreskin is the most painful part of circumcision. After this is done, the actual clamping and removing of the foreskin is not the painful part. Many people are confused about this.
As for adult circumcision, it is so controlled and regulated with anesthetic and excellent techniques that you're looking at 20 minutes, no pain, and a healing with self-dissolving stitches within 2 weeks. As if the foreskin was never there you have been liberated from the foreskin's obtrusiveness. It was like going to the Dentist, instead of being the "scary" Circumcision.
It's not a big deal at all.
Now what I would want to tell parents who plan on circumcising their sons is to pick the Doctor to do it at least 3 months ahead of time. Make sure he or she is an expert at doing them with good track record. Then your son will get a very well-done circumcision and have his whole life with happiness.
To all adult guys who plan on getting circumcised, make sure you pick your State or County's best Urologist and you will get a nice circumcision and enjoy much happiness.
To those parents who choose not to circumcise their sons, make sure you do not retract the foreskin. The foreskin is naturally stuck to the head like duct tape. If you do not circumcise your son, you are NOT to retract it at all, or you when the head heals it will cause scabs and bad adhesions and bring about infections very badly, and cause your son A LOT OF PAIN. All you have to do is rinse the area and leave the foreskin is alone, DON'T RETRACT IT! As long as the skin is sealed to the head of the penis, the tip will self-clean every time he urinates. All you need to do is rinse away the waste and put on another diaper. That is it! Don't do anything else. One of the worst things that can happen to a boy that is not circumcised is when parents or even ignorant Doctors keep forcefully retracting the foreskin. This can be considered sexual assault. Because each time you do this, you're ripping the skin on head off and injuring the glans/head. The foreskin will naturally retract over time. That is when he needs to wash under it at least twice a day. He will feel all the smegma and rot develop under it and it will irritate him. A lot of boys will by necessity wash out under their own foreskins after it naturally separates by the time they're 4 or 5 years old.
If you do not circumcise your baby boy, just leave it alone that is how you will care for him. He will on his own wash under his foreskin as he gets older and doesn't like all the smegma and bacteria rot which develops under it.
The next thing to mention is that IN NO WAY is anything on a woman's external female genitalia comparable to foreskin. A woman’s labia minora, clitoris and clitoral hood which all connect together are completely different types of tissue, and are classified as organs. Because of the highly vascular, innervated and blood vessel makeup which connects the vagina, clitoris, clitoral hood, labia minora, mons pubis, vulva, cervix and nipples all as one, makes them sexual organs. They are made up of major complexes of blood vessels, sexual nerves and vascular tissue making up a sex organ not just simple skin. Which connects the entire external female genitalia to many interior structures on a woman such as her vaginal canal, cervix, uterus, nipples and also much of her lower body, legs, buttocks and feet. It is wrong to compare foreskin to anything a woman has on her external female genitalia. Circumcision is an elective procedure which brings benefits to a man and his partners. But anything done to the female genitalia is mutilation, because it is harming or destroying a sex organ. The penis and the labia minora, hood of the clitoris and clitoris are all erectile and erogenous tissue, unlike the foreskin. Many people are comparing the foreskin to the clitoral hood, it can be observed that way, but the DNA, genetics and vascular organ tissue behind the woman's clitoral hood is absolutely different from the foreskin. Even if it seems like it is not. Science is about observation, however not all similar observations are the same things. If you study histology and anatomy you will know, foreskins are completely different from ANYTHING on the female external genitalia. Anyone comparing cutting onto any part of the external female genitalia which is female sexual mutilation is to removing foreskins is in SERIOUS ERROR.
Foreskin on a histological level is very similar to the umbilical cord tissue where it meets the abdomen. I can tell you as a former non-circumcised man, that during sex the foreskin doesn't have any stimulation while in the vagina. It is very redundant and needs to be retracted and held back to really get any stimulation. The very slippery vaginal walls sliding against the foreskin doesn't stimulate the foreskin in any way. That is my experience.
When circumcised the head is liberated from this obstruction and the shaft skin is tight. The stimulation during sex is much greater and pleasant than being with a foreskin. That is my experience. That is why I got circumcised when I was 18. I am 33 now, and there are no problems.
As for some men claiming the head is without its "protective" covering, well that's a farce. My experience having foreskin is that it is more of an obstruction than a "protective covering". After a while it was more preferred that it be removed. Afterwards it was a total liberation having this foreskin obstruction gone.
Theories about why the foreskin is even there include that it was only meant for the pre-natal period while in the womb. Others include, that the female embryo is the original design for all fetuses and if an XY chromosome comes into the scene, the female embryo modifies into the male embryo. With that everything changes and a redundant and corrupted foreskin is left back.
According to genetics, the foreskin is the only vestigial structure aside from the umbilical cord, this according to the Histology. The 20,000 nerves "lost" that the anti-circumcision movement claims circumcision removes are not sexually sensitive, but are the same type of dermal skin nerves found in the base of the umbilical cord, which are also removed when the umbilical cord is removed.
The head of the penis the glans is where all the sexual stimulation comes from and is erectile tissue. If one studies how erectile tissue nerves work, they're based off a wide expanse of nerve input frequency changes. In other words the stimulation coefficient changes with mood, erectile levels and parasympathetic (conscious choice) nervous system demands are the variables involved.
It might seem logical to conclude the foreskin some how protects the head/glans on the penis, but my experience is that is does not. It obstructs the head more than doing any true protecting.
The term obstruct and the term protect should be known for their definitions. Obstructs refers to having a wrapper on a door knob, it will lower it's practical use. Protect would refer to having a protective plastic cap at the end of a screw bolt so it doesn't get damaged. We if compare this to men and women's genitalia, the foreskin is comparable to the wrapper on the door knob and the clitoral hood, labia minora and vulva is like the plastic cap at the end of the screw bolt.
The foreskin obstructs and the external female genitalia protects. The foreskin is just a wrapper and the other is an actual part containing body and vascular organ tissue.
The two cannot be compared.
If parents are against circumcision that is fine, you don't have to circumcise your son and you don't even have to do anything but leave the foreskin alone. Just rinse it and don't retract the foreskin and everything will work out fine.
The anti-circumcision movement is adding many lies and non-medical statements in the hopes of demonizing circumcision. There is nothing wrong with circumcision, no more than leaving the foreskin alone.
The only responsibility parents who choose circumcision for their sons should take more seriously, is to make sure they arrange for a Doctor who is an expert at performing circumcisions and has a good track record. Parents need to make sure they choose the Doctor at least 3 months ahead of time and NOT on the spot when asked if they want their sons circumcised. This is when some less than competent Doctors might perform the circumcision and end up taking off too little foreskin causing adhesions or taking off too much including a lot of shaft skin. That is where the discomfort some circumcised men claim to have is coming from, when they end up taking a lot of shaft skin off past the foreskin, not the actual circumcising of the foreskin itself.
It should be known that with the Gomco Clamp, the actual crimping of the foreskin comes approximately 1/4" to 3/8" PAST where the clamp is applied. An experienced and competent Doctor knows to just pull the foreskin through where it almost meets the shaft. Because when the clamp is applied it will reach farther back and make up for the slack and clamp on perfectly at where the foreskin meets the shaft skin. This results in a perfect circumcision and many men are happily enjoying this type of CORRECT Circumcision.
But if you allow just any Doctor to circumcise your son he or she might get ahead of themselves and pull all of the foreskin along with the shaft skin and then clamp it down pulling forward even more shaft skin, resulting in what some men have today.
With that might come discomfort throughout a guy's life, but however, many guys have had that type of circumcision done, and the shaft skin has expanded with it as they grow and also have no discomfort or any problems.
It all also depends on the growth genetics of the individual.
But if you are a guy who has had one of those excessive circumcisions where much of the shaft skin is gone and is expanded out as you have grown, and you are having discomfort, there is a solution for your problem, which involves no surgery or even a Doctor's visit.
You can for a few hours each day, pull the shaft skin over the head and hold it there with tape. Putting this constant and moderate tension on ANY TYPE OF SKIN for prolonged periods of time will cause the body to add new skin cells in order to compensate for that tension. The result is that new skin cells and new skin is grown. This is always done when Doctors heal burn victims or people who need a little more skin some place on their body. It's simple, but it takes some time.
A guy who has had much of his shaft skin lost along with the foreskin by incompetent Doctors performing circumcisions, all they have to do is pull the shaft skin over the head and hold it there with tape for just 2 to 4 hours a day. Within two to three weeks of doing this, you will have new skin growth and much loosened, expanded and newly grown shaft skin. No longer will the penis stick forward and be uncomfortable. It will all loosen up and hang down, with some slack.
When you get some moveable shaft skin not too much then stop. The growth is permanent and you won't have anymore discomfort. You won't be blaming circumcision anymore either.
There is nothing wrong with circumcision. The problem lies in parents making sure they pick the right Doctors to do it. Ones who know how to put the clamp on correctly, and know that the point where the foreskin meets the shaft skin is the farthest the circumcision should go back. Because then the inner skin mucosa merges with the shaft into a streamlined profile. Then the guy has a correct circumcision, with a smooth, streamlined and slack-free shaft, still with the inner sensitive mucosa skin there, with only the outer foreskin extending from the beginning of the shaft forward, removed.
Many guys have a correct circumcision performed on them and are laughing at the anti-circumcision people as complete fools and nuts. That is because they have had a correct circumcision done on them and they are having a totally great pleasurable time.
It's not circumcision it is getting the correct Doctor who knows what he or she is doing. Circumcision is a little more technical than many think. There's different skin layer regions and it's simple when the foreskin is removed not the mucosa and not the shaft skin. Simply pulling the foreskin forward where it evens out and the mucosa almost begins and the foreskin ends is the exact point where the foreskin is to be removed. Not the shaft skin and not the mucosa which should be inline together as a streamlined, slack-free profile. When I say mucosa I am talking about the lighter or pinker skin on the shaft which is sensitive that correctly circumcised men have. Depending on one's coloring, it is either pink, lighter olive or lighter in general than the rest of the skin coloring. That mucosa is NOT considered part of the outer foreskin and it is where the outer foreskin meets the shaft and should not be pulled through and removed by the circumcision clamp.
A competent Doctor would know this, who has circumcised thousands of boys.
So make sure you pick an expert Doctor to do your son's circumcision at least 3 months before you have the son you plan to circumcise. Make sure you are referred to the State or County you live in's best and most qualified Doctors who are specialized in doing infant Circumcisions. Either an expert Pediatrician or expert OBGYN. Then your son will get a great deal which will last a lifetime.
I wanted to mention all these facts I'm aware of, so that the false information floating around on the Internet are disregarded. People are looking for correct answers, and I have 15 years of experience on this subject, both technically and personally. So I might as well share it, so that facts bring forth peace between everyone.
The truth shall people free, so why do they want the lies?
The world circumcision rate, for all males on Earth is around about 39%. No other elective procedure is this popular. Necessity is the mother of invention, circumcision in many places of the world comes as a necessity, given the environment. For sex is, it is much better. For hygiene, it is much better. After washing, all of the bacteria and odor comes right back within an hour when a guy isn't circumcised.
Aside from Muslim and Jewish males being circumcised, about 20% of all nations on Earth plus 60% of the U.S. and 35% of Canada's males are circumcised. There are more non-religiously circumcised men worldwide than there are Jewish and Muslim males circumcised. Muslim males are 600 million, Jewish males are 7 million, so that is 607 million Jewish and Muslim males circumcised on Earth. But if you take the rest of the non-religiously circumcised males worldwide the number reaches around 650 million. So overall 1.257 billion males on planet Earth are circumcised out of 3.15 billion males total on planet Earth or 39% of all males worldwide are circumcised.
But if you are dead-set against circumcision that is totally ok. You will just have to leave your son's foreskin alone and do not retract it ever, until it naturally separates on its own. He can wash it out on his own, because it gets pretty uncomfortable with all that builds up under the foreskin if he doesn't.
After the foreskin retracts on its own it isn't comfortable to have smegma and all sorts of foul secretions all solidifying under the foreskin. He'll wash it out on his own.
But this battle between if foreskin or circumcision is better is completely folly and is a waste of time, because there is no winner.
Having a foreskin or being circumcised in regards to sexuality is completely psychological and is NOT physical. If you are a guy who had a lot of shaft skin lost you can always expand the shaft skin by putting tension on it for some time. It will naturally loosen up and grow. Only loosen the shaft skin a little that is all. Then your discomfort will go away and you'll find out it wasn't the circumcision, it was the excess shaft skin being lost that is the problem. Remember that circumcision is removal of the foreskin, not the shaft skin, not the mucosa, just the foreskin which extends past the mucosa and shaft skin. Everything else going farther back is sexually sensitive skin and should not be removed.
A Doctor who knows what they're doing intimately knows this.
Make sure you pick the right Doctor then circumcision is very great gift any parent can give their son.
If you're against circumcision then that's fine too, just leave the foreskin alone don't retract it don't touch it. Just rinse it and it will take care of itself. He will clean under it on his own as he gets older when the foreskin naturally separates on his own. Trust me, when the foreskin retracts and smegma and bacteria build up under it, it becomes irritating, washing it out is something HE WILL DO ON HIS OWN!
When I was about 5 or 6, I think my foreskin retracted and I could feel all this stuff under it and would rinse it out a few times a day. It was like that until I was 18. I got sick of having it there and all the garbage which gets under it and also how it obstructs sex.
After getting circumcised and it healing in three weeks, it was like the foreskin was never even there. Sex was wonderful along with many other things, like oral sex, fore-play and many positions. Also being able to have sex without needing to handling it and being able to hold my woman around her waste and back while I penetrate her is very nice.
So enough with all the pro-circumcision and anti-circumcision rhetoric, it is all due to ignorance combined with over-zealousness.
It should also be known to the masses, that all of the anti-circumcision operations going on are all Government-back Psychological Operations units. They are working on eventually breaking up the United States and merging it with the New World Order. In this process, many CIA-backed Psychological Operations experiments are taking place upon the population. One of which is trying to convince men that they are "damaged" or "violated" for being circumcised.
Nothing can be further from the truth. I am a former non-circumcised man, who had my foreskin until I was 18. After getting it removed everything is much better for it was a liberation not any type of "loss".
There are many Psychological Operations being experimented upon the masses. They are all designed to cause conflict and bring anger and discord between people. They include the anti-circumcision movement, the women's liberation movement in order to convince women they've been "violated" by their husbands and need to leave them, just so they can break up the family.
The New World Order which is nothing more than a Global Socialist Dictatorship by such Fascist Bankers as Rothschild and Rockefeller, are each worth over 500 TRILLION with a "T" Trillion U.S. Dollars ALL IN PURE GOLD! These Fascist Bankers have bought out the U.S. Government, Schools, Military, Prisons and Media along with all other nation's. They want to make a One World Socialist Government.
In the process they have been financing all sorts of Psychological Operations experiments upon the masses. Anything to break up the unity of people and cause discord is their game, i.e. Women's Lib, Anti-Circumcision, False Abuse, etc. etc.
This should be known by the masses as well. Because some people are wondering where all this Anti-Circumcision rhetoric is coming from and shouldn't even be an issue.
Well there's more involved than many people in the masses think.
There's a whole lot more to share, but I will stop right about now. Enough important information has been revealed here so that people can be informed and no longer be in discord about the subjects of foreskin and circumcision.

"RealBlonde : I HATE UNCIRCUMCISED DOODLES!"
YUK! to you RealBlonde. I wish they would circumcise your labia because I heard you have fish odor and yeast infection down there. When you urinate, some urine get trapped under your labia. YUK! SMELLY to you RealBlonde. Let's get a scissors and circumcise you now!

Um I can't believe what I'm reading from RealBlonde. Apparently she's never seen a real penis. The idea that pee gets stuck in there is hardly possible on most guys. None of my foreskinned friends have foreskins long enough to cover the end of the penis anyway, so the pee would have to travel against gravity and find some hole that wouldn't be pulled back like 5 minutes later (i.e. something other than the foreskin). Also, how do you rectify this problem, RealBlonde? Girls have more of an issue with this and all my girlfriends just wipe and shower. Not sure why that would be much to ask of a guy, I do it (in fact, I can't NOT touch myself in the shower).

HELL NO! These women are so hateful and offensive. Would you give your teenage daughter fake boobs because guys made fun of them? Who cares?! The women who make fun of a real penis shouldn't be dating my son anyway, because they are obviously disrespectful and that is probably not just in regards to penises. I'm a guy and I say no way. I can't believe people actually do this. All those old wives tales about it being healthier would be funny if people didn't actually believe it. I can't believe people buy this stuff. The reason people get infections is because they are not clean. That doesn't change between cir'ced or uncirc'd. Look at Europe; almost no one is circumcised and almost no one has problems. Hmmm...
I can't agree with toxxic that it's not other people's business. It was not your business to have cosmetic surgery on your child. I wish people had stopped my parents, but they didn't and I was circ'd. I told them how much I hated it when I was older (20s) and they pretended like they had no idea. Just because your children don't say anything about it doesn't mean they don't secretly hate you for it (I mean this for everyone, not just toxxic). I did and I do, even though I love my parents otherwise. They made a very poor and arrogant decision that did not include my feelings.
Cameloh and liketysplit you say it's just you, it's a personal decision and to each his own; how come you won't let your son decide then if we're allowed to have differences of opinion? And by the way, you clean his penis the same way you would a cir'c one. The foreskin doesn't even move until he's a couple years old! Your doctor should have told you this....
As for the parents who said their sons didn't cry or got over it quickly, you're pulling the wool over your own eyes. I didn't cry at all (they had anesthesia then), but I've cried many times since over my scars and because I'm not as whole as half of my friends.

I would not have it done I feel like it is mutilation. I think if he wants it done he can have done when he is older. Its not that hard to clean; his body his choice. I think as babies uncircumcised penises look better.

I'm circumsized and my two sons are circumsized. My wife and I thought long and hard about whether we wanted to get them circumsized or not. There really is a stigma in the Eastern US against men who are uncircumsized - I had a roommate who was uncircumsized and it always caused him issues. Girls would complain and he also caught some crap from guys who thought it was odd. As I said both my sons are circumsized and I watched the brief operations - days went by and they were fine. Heck my junk's great. I'm not against uncircumsized dudes, I just think it's cultural and based on my wife and my experience I wanted my sons circumsized to avoid any stigma. I also think that the concerns around circumcision as far as "sensitivity" is concerned is a non-issue.